Meanwhile, also in France... France shooting: Student arrested after school attack - CNN.comhttp://www.cnn.com/2017/03/16/europe/fr ... ng-grasse/19 hours ago - (CNN)A 17-year-old student has been arrested after a shooting at a high school in Grasse, in southeastern France, authorities said Thursday. ... French policemen stand by the Alexis de Tocqueville high school in the French town of Grasse. ... The French education ministry tweeted that ...

brekin » 17 Mar 2017 16:22 wrote:Sad. Also sad was my almost immediate thought, "Why don't we have a "Public Knife Attacks Master thread" as this is basically common nowadays?".

We do / have since 2015... Amok Over The Edge(d)-Weapon Violence SpreesPost by elfismiles » 26 Oct 2015 22:31 viewtopic.php?f=8&t=39246

Meanwhile, also in France... France shooting: Student arrested after school attack - CNN.comhttp://www.cnn.com/2017/03/16/europe/fr ... ng-grasse/19 hours ago - (CNN)A 17-year-old student has been arrested after a shooting at a high school in Grasse, in southeastern France, authorities said Thursday. ... French policemen stand by the Alexis de Tocqueville high school in the French town of Grasse. ... The French education ministry tweeted that ...

A man has been shot dead after trying to seize a soldier's weapon at Orly airport in Paris, French officials say.

He was killed by the security forces in a shop after the attack in the airport's southern terminal.

The airport has been shut after what the authorities described as an extremely serious incident.

The man was on a watch-list of radicalised individuals and had been involved in a shooting hours earlier in the north of Paris, officials say.

The sequence of events

Early on Saturday morning the suspect was stopped at a checkpoint in northern Paris and fired at police with a pellet gun before escaping in a car that was later found abandoned in the southern suburbs.

He is then believed to have stolen another car that was found at Orly airport. The timing of the sequence of events fits, says the BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris.

At the airport 90 minutes later the man approached a military patrol and tried to seize a weapon from one of the soldiers, French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said.

She managed to keep hold of the gun, and two other soldiers opened fire on the attacker, killing him.

His motivation is not yet known.

A security operation is continuing at the airport with bomb disposal experts involved and a search for any possible accomplices.

Police say the attacker was not carrying any explosives. No-one else was seriously hurt in either incident.

The soldiers were part of Operation Sentinel - involving thousands of soldiers deployed to provide back-up to the police after the Paris attacks of November 2015.

France has presidential elections starting from next month and remains under a state of emergency following earlier attacks.

Presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to "the calm, control and professionalism'' of troops who responded to the attack.